Balls v. Hackley’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “[defendant has failed to observe the distinction between those cases involving the statutory power of a court in a divorce proceeding to enter orders concerning support and those cases in which the parties in a divorce action have settled their property rights by agreement, the terms of which are incorporated in a decree.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Myers v. Myers